Profile for Ming-Hai Wang, MD. Ph.D

Ming-Hai Wang, MD. Ph.D

Biography

Dr. Ming-Hai Wang is a cancer biologist and immunologist with M.D. and Ph.D degrees from Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou of China. After a postdoctoral training in NIH National Cancer Institute, Dr. Wang pursued his independent research career first at Wayne State University in Detroit of Michigan and later at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Currently, Dr. Wang is a tenured Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, the Amarillo Community Endowed Chair in Cancer Research, and Director of Cancer Biology Center at the School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo, Texas.

Research Interests

Mechanisms of cancer malignancy with the primary focus on pathogenesis of MSP-RON signaling in epithelial cancer and development of RON-targeted biotherapeutics for cancer therapy.